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Harriman Controls Half the
Country’s Mileage.
MAN WHO OWNS 6A. CENTRAL
He Never Smiles, and Terrorizes
Alike Bankers and Bootblacks.
Has Grown More Powerful in Spite
of President Roosevelt’s Expressed
Intention of Making a Horrible
Example of Him. S
The greatest railroad figure’in the
world, a man who has no sericus
rival, is Edward H. Harriman, who
absolutely controls half the railroad
mileage of the United States and
who, if he lives another score of
years, will dominate all the big rail
roads of the country. Through the
properties he controls he employs
1,000,000 men.
Harriman is a puzzle to many.
Wall street loves and hates him. It
thinks he is the greatest American
that ever lived, and it will shout
itself hoarse over him. Tlanen it will
damn him. But when it damns Har
riman it is because Harriman re
fuses to act like an ordinary being;
refuses to be anything but a money
god. Wall street occasionally has
a spasm of human feeling, and it
likes at such a time to see its great
est god unbend. But Harriman
never unbends.
He is violent in manner and
speech. He never smiles and abso
lately is lacking in a sense of hu
mor. He terrorizes his subordinates,
his visitors and associates in busi
ness, and it is a wonder that he has
not been assaulted. But he plays
no favorites. He will insult a bank
er as quickly as he will a newsbhoy.
A Law Unto Himself. ?
Those who know him best say ]lo‘
is not brutal but brusque; not \(,l
lacking in courtesy as in suavity.
They say that he is so deadly svrious‘
about everything in which he en
gages that he cannot understand the
feelings and the foibles of other men.
They say that his habit of roaring
at persons, whether they be messen
ger boys or princes of plenty, is the
result more of extreme nervousness
than of temper, and that he is no
more intolerant than Morgan or any
other man who has a multiplicity of
affairs to attend.
And E. H. Harriman certainly is a
great man. Two years ago Theo
dore Roosevelt, president of the
United States, camped on his trail
with the pleasant and expressed in
tention of making a horrible exam
ple of him, to show other malefac
tors of great wealth what was com
ing to them if they did not quit
rebbing the public. The president
branded Harriman, but that is as
far as he went. Despite all of
Harriman’'s alleged misdeeds in the
looting of the Chicago & Alton,
and despite all the dread power of
the department of justice and the
interstate commerce commission,
spurred on by the president, noth
ing has been done. Harriman has
proceeded gobbling up railroads, de
stroving those who oppose him and
rualing the transportation situation as
if presidents of the United States,
departments of justice and interstate
commerce commissions had no ter
rors for him. And even the press
of the country almost has forgotten
his misdeeds, so amazing is the ac
tivity of the man.
! Brought Morgan to His Knees,
The people really never got to
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know Harriman until J. Pierpont
Morgan marked him out for slaught
er. Morgan is almost as brutal and
intolerant as Harriman, but he has
some tact. It used to be a favorite
diversion of Morgan’s to rip the liver
and lights out of impertinent per
sons who crossed his path in Wall
street. Harriman crossed Morgan's
path several times before Morgan
decided to rend him in the Northern
Pacific affair. Morgan went into
that fight as blithely as ever he went
into a contest in his life. Before
a halt was called his eyes were pop
ping out and he was in terrible dis
tress. He no longer was lord of
Wall street. . Harriman had given
him the fight of his existence, and
much as the wounds hurt his pride
was hurt more. Since the day of
the Northern Pacific corner Harri
man has been playing a larger and
larger part in the affairs of the na
tion, and Morgan has been plying a
smaller and a smaller, When the
president declared war on Harriman
it is an open secret that Morgan,
with savage delight, did what he
' could to embarrass Harriman, but
_lll;n'rimnu was too securely in
trenched to be hurt. In the panic
'days last October Harriman and Mor
';::m met several times without the
’;.()li(’-e being called in, and now there
is peace between them, but it is the
sort of peace that Harriman always
dictates, the peace wherein his sov
ereignty is accepted and where his
will prevails. Morgan now ig classed
as his ally and supporter.
Harriman has surprised no one
more than Wall street. It was felt
when the national government ar
raigned him that he must fall, but
instead of falling he has been climb
ing higher. Wall street idolizes
strength and success. It never has
had so much success as is personi
fied in Edward H. Harriman. Wall
street looks upon him today as the
only man who can take hold of a
bankrupt trunk line and puf it on
its feet. But then he seems to in
still life and energy into everything
he takes hold of. Wall street meas
ures morals by success, and Harriman
has done in a few years what the
great captains of a former generation
strived for and failed to do in a life
time. He has made himself master
of a real transcontinental system.
An Absolute Dictator.
One-half of the railroad mileage
of the United States has been Harri
manized and it is as certain as any
thing of this sort can be called cer
tain that the next ten years will see
the bulk of fhe remaining half Har
rimanized also. He personifies the
great force that is transforming tne
railroad situation in America. What
is startling in this connection is that
there is no other man in the coun
try who measures up with Harriman
or can be considered as his successor
or his rival.
When Harriman and Morgan made
their peace the former controlled the
Union and Southern Pacific, the two
greatest roads in the west; the Bal
timore & Ohio, the Reading, Jersey
Central, L.ehigh Valley, Delaware &
Hudson, the Illinois (&ntral, the
Atchison and the Central of Georgia.
He rescued the Wheeling & Lake
Erie and the Wabash railroad from
bankruptcy. 1t is expected that be
}fore many weeks he will take over
the Rock Island, the largest railroad
'system in the world, and it is con
sidered that it is only a question of
‘time before he will take charge of
‘the New York Central and the New
'York, New Haven & Hartford.
LETTER TO W. H. BISHOP,
Dawson, Ga.
Dear ./ ;Sir: Our proposition is
simply this:
If Devoe doesn’t take less gallons
for a:job, no pay. Yours truly
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DOVEREL ITEMS.
We are sorry to hear that Mr.
George Bius, one of Doverel's best
citizens, will leave this place. He
will move to his father’s, in Randolph
county.
It seems that our Sunday schools
have revived, as we had both last
Sunday afternoon. Everybody has
an invitation to attend.
Migs Mayv HEley and Mr. €. D
Mims attended preaching in Calhoun
Sunday. They also visited the home
of Mrs. D. W. Collier; Jr.
Farmers are very busy around
Doverel with cotton, but will soofi
be through gathering.
Misses Adna Eley, Mattie Lou Durr
and Mr. T. S. Mims made a pleasant
trip to Dickey.
Mrs. J. M. Durr has returned home
from a visit to her mother near
Dickey, Ga.
Miss Daisy Gilder of Randolph
county is visiting her sister, Mrs.
Geo. Bius.
Mrs. Mattie McLendon and Mrs.
.. Norman of Graves have visited
here.
We are glad to welcome Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie Heartly to our commu
nity.
Mr. H. E. Eley visited in Randolph
county.
Baby won’'t suffer five minutes
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I.LONDON, Eng.—Miss Viola Spen
cer, who made an involuntary balloon
vovage during night from Derbyshire
into Leicestershire, tells some inter
esting details of her adventure.
Clad in the customary tights she
made a belated ascent at a gala event
at Heanor, near llkeston.
] was shet off the ground at a
tremendous rate,” she said, “‘and the
crowd must have lost sight of me
immediately.
“When I reached 3,000 feet I tried
to release the parachute, but it failed
to act. I wound the rope round my
arm so as to secure a bhetter pur
chase, and I reached 10,000 feet.
Sgill I could not release the para
chute. In a remarkably short space
of time my aneroid registered 20,-
000 and I resigned myself to the
possibility of having to spend a night
in my sling.
She Feared Freezing.
“The cold was intense, and the air
so rarefied that it was difficult to
breathe. My hands became numbed,
and I beat them against the ring of
my parachute. When the blood be
gan to circulate again the pain was
terrible. I was fearful lest I should
lose consciousness and fall from my
seat.
“You cannot imagine the intense
solitude of those altitudes. I started
to sing, but the sound of my own
voice was so weird that it frightened
me.
“I passed over Ilkeston and saw
the lights of Nottingham, which
looked splendid.
“The balloon gradually lost gas
and descended, and I was delighted
to near the bark of a dog I
touched earth at Thrusington, near
Rearsby, in Leicestershire, and quick
ly released myself in a field.
Ballon Escapes Again.
- “As the parachute was still at
tached the balloon would not col
lapse, and rose again. I chased it
over fields and then gave up.
“I roused the astonished inmates
of a house close by, and they gave
me brandy and put me to bed.
‘‘Next day I discovered the balloon
in the backyard of a cottage, un
damaged. With the assistance of
some men it was conveyed to the
nearest station, and I returned to
Derbyshire.”’
CHARGED WITH FORGERY.
A Young White Man Is in Jail at
Morgan.
A young man about 18 years of
age, giving his name as M. C. Lewis,
and his home as Suwanee, Fla., was
arrested and given commitment trial
before Justice Wm. Ray Monday
evening on a charge of forgery upon
a warrant sworn out by Mr. J. S.
Jackson, a merchant of Edison.
Judge Ray committed Lewis to jail
In defeult of a $2OO bond, and
Sheriff Davis came over Wednesday
and took him to Morgan to await the
next term of Calhoun superior court.
—Calhoun County Courier.
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